Self-Sufficiency for Dummies Collection - Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg for Dummies/Keeping Chickens for Dummies UK Edition

Author: Geoff Stebbings
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Become self-sufficient at home with this great two book collection. Self-sufficiency For Dummies Collection includes Growing Your Own Fruit & Veg For Dummies and Keeping Chickens For Dummies UK Edition. From planning a planting calendar to feeding and caring for new plants, Growing Your Own Fruit & Veg For Dummies shows readers how to grow the tastiest fruit and vegetables all year round Offering expert advice to the reader straight from the River Cottage 'Chicken Whisperer', so whether you're looking to raise chickens for eggs, meat, or just the entertainment value and fun Keeping Chickens For Dummies is the perfect place to start Fresh eggs, vegetables and fruit - straight from your garden. Get started with these great two books today!

Self-Sufficiency

Author: Abigail Gehring
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628732601
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 1216

Book Description
Now, more than ever, people across the country are turning toward simpler, greener, and quieter ways of living—whether they’re urbanites or country folk. Following in the footsteps of Back to Basics and Homesteading, this large, fully-illustrated book provides the entire family with the information they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. Self-Sufficiency provides tips, advice, and detailed instructions on how to improve everyday life from an environmentally and organic perspective while keeping the focus on the family. Readers will learn how to plant a family garden and harvest the produce; can fruits and vegetables; bake bread and cookies; design interactive and engaging “green” projects; harness natural wind and solar energy to cook food and warm their homes; boil sap to make maple syrup; and build treehouses, furniture, and more. Also included are natural crafts readers can do with their kids, such as scrapbooking, making potato prints, dipping candles, and constructing seasonal decorations. Whether the goal is to live entirely off the grid or just to shrink their carbon footprints, families will find this book a thorough resource and a great inspiration.

Self Sufficiency

Author: Nancy Ross
Publisher: Vdv Publishing
ISBN: 150806086X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 105

Book Description
DISCOVER THE BASICS TO TINY HOUSES, BACKYARD CHICKENS, HOMESTEADING, AND MINI FARMING ALL IN ONE BOOK! Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn In The First Book... The Benefits of Tiny Homes Ways To Finance Your Tiny Home Finding The Perfect Location Easy Space Hacks To Make Tiny Home Living Easier Kitchen Ideas Living Room, Bathroom, Bedrooms Design Tips And Tricks To Understand Tiny Home Living Much, Much, More! Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn In The Second Book... Benefits of Backyard Chickens What You Need to Get Started Getting Setup to Bring the Chickens Home The Best Backyard Breeds Understanding the Basic Behaviors of Your Chicken Medical Issues With Your Chickens Making Money With Your Chickens Much, Much, More! Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn In The Third Book... The Basics of Homesteading Raising Your Own Livestock in Your Backyard The Magic of Gardening for Your Own Food Preserving Your Food for Winter Making Your Own Clothes Making Your Own Household Items Much, Much, More! Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn In The Fourth Book... Simple Tricks to Maximize Your Space Best Plants for Mini Farming Picking the Right Soil Pest Control Taking Care of Weeds Livestock That Does Well with Mini Farming? Tips to Make Mini Farming Easier Much, Much, More!

Keeping Chickens For Dummies

Author: Pammy Riggs
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119994179
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 439

Book Description
Practical how-to advice for keeping chickens "For me, raising chickens, for eggs and meat, has been one of the most enjoyable aspects of our family farm. I am a great admirer of "chicken whisperer" Pammy Riggs, and with her two co-authors she has produced an admirably thorough guide to enjoying the pleasures and avoiding the pitfalls of keeping chickens. Get the book, and take the feathery plunge!" - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Keeping Chickens For Dummies provides you with an introduction to all aspects of keeping chickens, from constructing a hutch to the correct feeding regime. It offers expert advice straight from the River Cottage ‘Chicken Whisperer', so whether you're looking to raise chickens for eggs, meat, or just the entertainment value and fun - Keeping Chickens For Dummies is the perfect place to start. Keeping Chickens For Dummies: Shows you how to keep chickens in different conditions Offers guidance on choosing and purchasing chickens Gives great step-by-step advice on constructing the right housing Provides expert advice on how to feed and care for your chickens

Homesteading for Dummies

Author: Helen Vicks
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781534975491
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
Homesteading For Dummies:20 Beginner's Tips To Start Your Completely Self-Sufficient Life Homesteading For Dummies: 20 Beginner's Tips To Start Your Completely Self-Sufficient Life Homesteading is a self-sufficient lifestyle to reconnect with nature. This lifestyle is really beneficial for you to get rid of numerous problems. You can reconnect to nature and invest for your health. It will lead you to spend a healthy life and reduce tensions. Homesteading requires you to grow your own food, vegetables, plants and raise animals for food and byproducts. You can enjoy healthy and active because your grown food will be free from chemicals and other harmful ingredients. You can sell surplus items in the market for money. If you want to enjoy a homestead lifestyle, you should maintain Consider the climate is a growing season of an area, such as Northern Europe and Africa. Some varieties of plants can grow quickly and you can harvest these plants to store in the winter season. It will be good to get the advantage of this book because it offers: Tips to Get Food Independence Preserve Your Food for Future Uses Save and Generate Your Own Energy DIY Products for Regular Use Download this book and get the advantage of tips and tricks given in this book. You can start a self-sufficient life easily. Download your E book "Homesteading For Dummies: 20 Beginner's Tips To Start Your Completely Self-Sufficient Life" by scrolling up and clicking "Buy Now with 1-Click" button!

Backyard Farming

Author: Adams Media
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150721524X
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Grow, raise, and store your own food with this simple and easy guide to creating a self-sustaining farm right in your backyard! These days we are all looking for ways to become more self-sufficient. Now with Backyard Farming you can create your very own micro farm right in your backyard—no matter where you live! Now you can discover ways to grow, raise, and store your own food year round whether you live in an urban environment, in the suburbs, or out in the country. From raising chickens and beekeeping to growing vegetables and planting fruit trees, this guide to homesteading will help you become more self-reliant in no time!

Backyard Homesteading

Author: David Toht
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607654415
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 523

Book Description
A simple guide to growing fruits, vegetables, nuts & berries, raising chickens, goats, & bees, and making beer, wine, & cider from your backyard. If you want to take control of the food you eat and the products you use, Backyard Homesteading will help you learn how to do it—even if you live in an urban or suburban house on a typical-size lot. Inside, you’ll discover how to turn a yard into a productive and wholesome “homestead” that allows you to grow your own fruits and vegetables and raise farm animals, including chickens and goats. You’ll also find the laws and regulations of raising livestock in populated areas, as well as ways to use and preserve the bounty your land produces. GETTING STARTED Benefits of pure food Family recreation Local regulations Potential yields and savings RAISING VEGETABLES AND HERBS Garden planning/layout Structures/irrigation Vegetable profiles Planting techniques Composting/healthy soil Seasonal gardening GROWING FRUITS, BERRIES, AND NUTS Planting fruit trees and bushes Fruit profiles Organic pest control Grafting and pruning Harvesting methods RAISING CHICKENS The joy of chickens Collecting eggs Care and feeding tips Other small animals RAISING GOATS Benefits of goat milk Structures/fencing Care and feeding tips Other large animals BEEKEEPING Benefits of beekeeping Care and harvesting Building hives Collecting honey HARVEST HOME Canning/drying/freezing Making beer, wine, cider Making jerky, sausage Making jams, jellies Pickling/salting/smoking Building root cellars

Gardening For Dummies Three e-book Bundle: Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies, Composting For Dummies and Storing and Preserving Garden Produce For Dummies

Author: Geoff Stebbings
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111862209X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 1170

Book Description
Gardening For Dummies eBook Bundle gives you three full length books rolled into one convenient bundle giving everything you need to know to help you towards a succesful crop and a full larder! Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies is a complete hands-on guide to growing delicious fruit and veg. It gives you the low-down on everything from assessing your plot and getting your hands on the right tools, to choosing the plants to grow, to nurturing your crops and bringing in your harvest. Composting For Dummies shows you how to turn household food waste and more into free nutrient-rich compost and mulch to give their vegetable and flower gardens a boost of energy. Storing and Preserving Garden Produce For Dummies provides everything you need to make your home-grown produce last, covering fruit, vegetables, herbs and even eggs.For each item of produce you'll find out what methods of storing and preserving are most suitable. You'll also find a wealth of recipes inside to help you on your way to making the perfect jams, chutneys and pickles

The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living

Author: Abigail Gehring
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510764194
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Grow your own vegetables and herbs, indoors in containers or outside in a garden. Raise chickens or goats. Build a beehive. Make your own nontoxic cleaning sprays. And more! Gehring’s books on country living have sold more than 500,000 copies. In this book, she offers a guide to homesteading skills that is as charming as it is practical. Full of sweet illustrations and gorgeous photographs, step-by-step instructions for essential skills such as building a chicken coop are interspersed with country lore and old-fashioned tips and tricks. Readers will learn how to: Container garden Raise chickens Churn butter Grow vegetables Can tomatoes Brew kombucha Make shampoo Repel garden pests Milk a goat Improve garden soil Make strawberry-rhubarb jelly Ferment vegetables Make yogurt Sprout grains And more! The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living combines the know-how of Back to Basics with the charm of The Farmer’s Almanac. This is the perfect gift for anyone interested in a more self-sufficient, greener, country lifestyle.

Living the Country Lifestyle All-In-One For Dummies

Author:
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470478942
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 634

Book Description
Living the Country Lifestyle All-in-One For Dummies features six books in one, including: Country Cooking (cast-iron cooking, canning, pickling, and outdoor cooking, among other topics) Traditional Crafts (sheering animals and producing wool, knitting, hand sewing, patchwork and quilting, candle making) Kitchen Gardening (growing and caring for vegetables, herbs, and fruit) Outdoor Skills (camp skills, fishing, navigation, outdoor family fun) Raising Farm Animals (buying, housing, and raising animals, beekeeping) Natural Health (herbal remedies, an encyclopedia of herbs, and healing foods)